Lapsed May 8, 2020 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 26, 2025
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Dye Precision, Inc.
Filed Jul 2, 2009 as application 12/497,476 · Granted May 8, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 13 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 8, 2020
2005
2026
Clock starts
Oct 26, 2005
Oct 26, 2005
No longer in force
May 8, 2020
May 8, 2020
Granted
May 8, 2012
May 8, 2012
Term would have run to
Nov 8, 2025
Nov 8, 2025
base term
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
13
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,568,478, to Nov 8, 2025. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
4
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Nov 8, 2025: its 20-year base term plus 13 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Oct 26, 2005, when application 11/258,100, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 2, 2009) | Oct 26, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +13 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 8, 2025 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,568,478) | resolves to Nov 8, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 8, 2020 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 8, 2020 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,568,478 | In force May 2027 | May 2027 |
| US 8,171,925 | this patent May 2020 | May 2020 |
| US 8,820,307 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2022 | Sep 2022 |
| Application 14/475,142 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Assignments
Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 14, 2010 Reel 25585, frame 640 | Hedberg, Daniel | FX Development AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 14, 2010 Reel 25585, frame 629 | FX Development AB | FX Airguns AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 14, 2010 Reel 25585, frame 626 | FX Airguns AB | Dye Precision, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 6, 2015 Reel 35154, frame 546 | Dye Precision, Inc. | Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP | Security Interest |
| Oct 30, 2020 Reel 54269, frame 80 | Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP | Dye Precision, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 13 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,568,478, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.